Chapter 7, Section 1 Pages

 What is culture?  How should a nation treat regional differences?  When and why should a nation become involved internationally?  How and why should a country seek to expand its territory?

 Culture: the ways of life of a particular group or people  Language  Art  Music  Clothing  Food  A new American culture was emerging – no longer a British culture

 Nationalism – the belief that the interests of the nation as a whole are more important than regional interests or the interests of other countries  Sectionalism – the belief that one’s own section, or region of the country is more important than the country as a whole  Along with an American culture, was a feeling of nationalism in the 1820s

 Chief Justice from  Believed in a strong national government  Two rulings that reflected nationalism and promoted nationalism by strengthening national government over power of states  McCulloch v. Maryland  Gibbons v. Ogden

 Nationalistic domestic policy by Henry Clay  Policies to unite the country  Tariff to protect American industries  Sale of government lands to raise money for gov’t  Maintenance of a national bank  Government funding of roads and canals  Never put into practice, but showed nationalist feelings and the desire to tie the country together

 James Monroe elected president in 1816  Economy grew rapidly  Spirit of nationalism and optimism  Called the time the “Era of Good Feelings”

 Rush-Bagot Treaty (US and Britain)  Disarmament of eastern part of the border between U.S. and British Canada  Drew the western part of the border between the US and Canada at the 49 th parallel  Adams-Onis Treaty (US and Spain)  US gets Florida  Established a firm boundary between the Louisiana Territory and Spanish Territory

RUSH-BAGOT TREATYADAMS-ONIS TREATY

 Spain and Russia give up the Oregon Territory  Negotiated a treaty with Britain to allow American settlers to travel to Oregon for 10 years

 A new foreign policy  Basically said that the US would stay out of European affairs and that the US expected Europe to do the same

 Missouri Territory applied to become a part of the Union  1819 there were 22 states in the Union, 11 slave and 11 free (equal representation in the Senate)  Major question: Do you admit Missouri as a slave state or a free state??

 Missouri was admitted as a slave state  Maine would be admitted as a free state  Kept the balance between free and slave states  Slavery would be banned in the northern part of the Louisiana Territory  Sectionalism between North and South starting to emerge